The “Baku Channel”: How Former German Politicians Maintain Backchannel Contacts with the Kremlin

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Berlin on 20 July for an official visit intended to demonstrate a new level of relations between the two countries. Yet behind the talks on energy, investment and transport corridors, a broader political...

On the European diplomatic map, relations between Azerbaijan and Slovakia remained almost unnoticed for a long time. Baku traditionally focused its primary attention on Italy, Türkiye, Hungary, Romania, and the Balkans, while Bratislava rarely...

Over the course of two days, Brussels signaled that the European Union's policy toward Russia has entered a new phase. Between July 13 and 14, the European Union simultaneously expanded its sanctions regime, renewed its accusations that Moscow is...

On July 8, the 12th Meeting of the Ministerial/Steering Committee was held in Baku within the framework of the implementation of the Agreement on Strategic Partnership in the Field of Green Energy Development and Transmission between the Governments...